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And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things, I perceive that ye are very religious.

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For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.

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The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands

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neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things

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and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined [their] appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation

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that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:

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for in him we live, and move, and have our being as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

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Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.

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The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

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inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

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Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again.

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Thus Paul went out from among them.

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But certain men clave unto him, and believed: among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.